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A New Mexico judge is considering whether to dismiss a grand jury indictment against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” A court hearing is scheduled for Friday on the motion to dismiss the case. Defense attorneys for Baldwin accuse prosecutors of unfair maneuvers at grand jury proceedings to divert attention away from exculpatory evidence and witnesses. A grand jury indictment in January charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins at a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe in October 2021. Baldwin has pleaded not guilty.

Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the impact of the decision is still up for debate. Have Americans truly ended segregation in fact, not just in law? The answer is complicated. U.S. schools in recent decades have grown far more diverse and, by some measures, more segregated, according to an Associated Press analysis. On one hand, the number of Black and white students who go to school almost exclusively with students of the same race is at an all-time low. On the other hand, huge shares of students of color still go to schools with almost no white students.

An upside-down American flag was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reports. It's a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud. The Times reported Thursday that it was seen flying on Jan. 17, 2021, days after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The newspaper published a photo it obtained of the flag. Dozens of the rioters were carrying similarly inverted flags while chanting slogans like “Stop the Steal.” The report comes as the high court considers two major cases related to the attack, including charges faced by the rioters and whether Trump has immunity from prosecution on election interference charges.

Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into chaos showed up at Donald Trump’s hush money trial. They stood outside Trump Tower filming their support for the indicted former president. They filed into the Manhattan courthouse “standing back and standing by,” as Rep. Matt Gaetz put it, invoking Trump’s call to the extremist Proud Boys. And they commandeered the spotlight to rant against what they called the “kangaroo court” and the “political persecution” of Trump. The scene provided a vivid example of how Republicans have tossed aside the tasks of governing in favor of the engineered spectacle of grievance, performance and outrage that powers Trump-era American politics.